This is PART 1 of Balls Deep, a Peter Kittredge Thriller. Peter Kittredge is middle-aged, unassuming, bisexual, and frequently—perpetually, one might say—bombed out of his mind. He also found a dead man in his own bed, and he managed to accidentally stab a CIA agent. Twenty-seven times. Oops. So, the police have more than a few questions for our hero, and our hero has a more than a few questions of his own, which he hopes he can answer before someone kills him. Hell, answering those nagging questions might even help keep him alive. One can only hope, right?